253
Participants
Start Date
August 31, 2012
Primary Completion Date
May 31, 2015
Study Completion Date
July 31, 2015
EBUS-TBNA
Patients allocated in the intervention group will undergo EBUS-TBNA procedure, performed in a bronchoscopy suite by the same operator under conscious sedation Three needle passes for each approachable station will be performed. The samples obtained will be examined on-site by experienced blinded cytopathologist.All specimens obtained will be send to definitive cytological and histological evaluation and the final diagnosis will be collected and reported on CRFs
Pulmonary Diseases Unit, Department of Immunoallergic and Respiratory Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria 'Ospedali Riuniti', Ancona
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti
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